Teacher: Mrs S. Rahli
Many sentences contain what we might call parallel thoughts. For example, you might say, "Lee had a great time scuba diving and water-skiing on her vacation." Scuba diving and water-skiing are parallel thoughts; that is, they are both things that Lee had a great time doing. By expressing both of them with ing words, the sentence emphasizes this parallelism. A clumsier way of saying the same thing might be, "Lee had a great time scuba diving and also she water-skied during her vacation." Here the two parallel thoughts are expressed in nonparallel forms of words, and the sense of their parallel relationship is weakened.
- Manager: Soumia RAHLI